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Developing Your Activism with Melissa Acedera of Polo's Pantry
Today we are chatting with the Founder of Polo's Pantry, Melissa Acedera. Polo's Pantry is a mobile food pantry dedicated helping unhoused and marginalized communities in L.A.
- The need to wear multiple hats
- Including structural change in the food system as part of the conversation
- Not know where to start and feeling intimidated by activism
- How to get involved in food justice
- Taking cues from the houseless community
- COVID’s affect on food access
- Making activism personal
- Why language is so important in this work
- Imposter syndrome in the mutual aid space
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Music by: Michael Paraskevas
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Success is a Moment with Nikki Menon
Today we are chatting with Nikki Menon. We chat about:
- Cold emailing
- Growing your network
- Paying it forward
- The benefits of working at an agency
- The power of being an assistant
- Doing things for fun
- Continuously moving the goalpost
- What do you want to say with the things you make?
- The word selfish
- Pushing the conversation forward
- You learn by experience
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